Quotes About Ambition

I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine! --Redd Heart

Be the best. There is no second place.

When you show a man what he wants, he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

The inclination to consider UPenn, not attendance at UPenn, is the key to future earnings.

I think that it is daily life which is the great event, the true "reality".… My greatest ambition is to do something new and striking using the banal and commonplace to show an aspect of daily life as if one were seeing it for the first time.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.

Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.

All men beneath your position covet your station

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.

And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.

That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

You must be always hungry and thirsty." The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. "Like me.

The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But

Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.

It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.

she must always go the limit. Your abilities will take you farther than you imagine. Don't imagine, then. Extend yourself!